According to a complaint filed late last week, Dallas County Schools fired a bus monitor whose medication got the best of him during an excursion with his boss last year. Says Paul Green in the lawsuit filed in Dallas County District Court, for the last 15 years he’s been diagnosed with myriad ailments, including colon cancer, congestive heart failure and hypertension, which he treats with a handful of diuretics that, naturally, create the “sudden and immediate need to urinate.” Which, he says, is precisely what happened on August 30, 2011, when he and supervisor Carlos Barrillo finished dropping off a busload of elementary school students.

Says the suit, which appears this morning on Courthouse News, Green repeatedly asked Barrillo to pull over so he could use the bathroom — a simple request Green says Barrillo “repeatedly and angrily denied” despite passing several gas stations and convenience stores. And because of that, Green claims, he “was unable to control his bodily fluids and unfortunately urinated on himself while on the bus.” Says the suit, Green “was humiliated and asked Barrillo to pull over so that he could clean himself.”

But, per the complaint, “Barrillo again refused. As a result, plaintiff was forced to place a towel in his sweat pants to absorb the urine in an effort to clean himself up.”

Shortly after that they had to pick up a wheelchair-bound student; Green says he never touched the child, or even came within two feet of him — until his supervisor told him to buckle the child in place.

A day later, says the suit, Green complained to DCS area supervisor Dennis Johnson; Green was eventually transferred to a different bus. A week later, he underwent surgery to treat his colon cancer. Then, on September 16, Green was fired “for unprofessional conduct.” Says the termination letter quoted in the complaint, “You admit to urinating on yourself and in a water bottle while on the school bus,” and even though “no students were onboard the bus at the time of the incident, you failed to protect the health and safety of the students boarding at your next scheduled stop from exposure to bodily fluids, by continuing to perform your functions as a bus monitor after the incident.”

The suit, which is asking for back pay and front pay and myriad other compensatory damages, alleges Dallas County Schools violated the Texas Commission on Human Rights Act, and that Barrillo’s conduct “was extreme and outrageous and beyond the bounds of decency in a civilized society.”

David Escalante, public relations manager for Dallas County Schools, says it doesn’t comment on pending litigation.

The June 29 smash-up involving a Dallas Area Rapid Transit-contracted paratransit van and the five cars that got in its way is, perhaps, the best-documented accident in Dallas North Tollway history; after all, we’ve seen it from all angles at this point — from high above the wreckage, and from inside the vehicle during that oh-$(#@! moment.

Now, per Courthouse News, comes the inevitable postscript — the lawsuit filed late last week in Dallas County District Court by Jose Sepulveda, referred to not so long ago by WFAA as the “miracle man” who managed to walk, or at least limp, away from the wreckage after being rescued by Dallas firefighters. As he told Monika Diaz, “I remember when they were cutting the car, I was thinking, ‘Is this it?’ I was gasping for air. I thought my life was over.”

Sepulveda is suing both Veolia Transportation and Willie Grant, named as the van’s driver. And the suit is short and to the point: Sepulveda and his wife say both company and employee were negligent, and want actual and punitive damages to cover everything from medical expenses to physical impairment to loss of earnings, present and future.